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CVE-2017-9403

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-772

Description

In LibTIFF 4.0.7, a memory leak vulnerability was found in the function TIFFReadDirEntryLong8Array in tif_dirread.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• libtiff: 4.0.7

References

• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2689
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/
• http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2689
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3903
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-27
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3602-1/

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